Thunderstorm Wind, Brooks
- When
- May 19, 2:34 PM EST
- Where
- Brooks County, Quitman
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- 911 Call Center
- Coordinates
- 30.780, -83.560
A tree and a power line were blown down in Quitman.
Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 19, 2016
Scattered afternoon thunderstorms developed across the area. With marginally favorable instability and deep layer shear, a couple of storms briefly became severe.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS TAE wrote it up.
Scattered afternoon thunderstorms developed across the area. With marginally favorable instability and deep layer shear, a couple of storms briefly became severe. One storm developed in Mitchell county and another moved from Jefferson county, FL into Brooks county, GA with a couple of trees blown down.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 19, 2:28 PM EST, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:28 PM EST, 6 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 328 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2016 .NEAR TERM [Through Tonight]... Scattered showers will continue to be focused along convergence boundaries in southwest and south-central Georgia and the sea breeze boundary in the Big Bend for the next several hours. Overnight, an upper level short wave trough over the central Plains will swing eastward, developing a new frontal system out ahead of it. The stalled frontal boundary along our western zones will weaken overnight as this developing system moves across the lower Mississippi valley. With this disturbed pattern in place and abundant moisture, low level clouds will set up again overnight and prevent us from cooling. Lows will be around 70. .SHORT TERM [Friday Through Saturday Night]... A trough axis and accompanying surface cold front will approach the area from the W/NW on Friday. Q-G forcing and deep layer moisture out ahead of the front will cause the highest PoPs to occur Friday afternoon through Friday evening. SPC has our CWA under a marginal risk for Friday due to moderate MLCAPE, abundant deep layer moisture, and deep-layer bulk shear values around 35 KT. Therefore, some storms have the possibility of being strong to briefly severe with damaging winds as the main threat. Friday night into Saturday, the PoPs will begin to decrease from NW to SE as the front passes through with northwesterly flow feeding dry air into the area behind the front. After the frontal passage, the rain chances cease and the temps begin to cool with lows in the mid to upper 60s on Sunday. .LONG TERM [Sunday Through Thursday]... A secondary and dry cold front will drop down from the north on Sunday bringing a re-enforcement of slightly cooler and drier air to the region. The cooler temps will be most noticeable both Monday and Tuesday morning with lows in the lower 60s. Otherwise, highs will be in the mid to upper 80s each day with lows in the mid to upper 60s Wednesday and Thursday. An isolated shower or thunderstorm will be possible by the middle of next week. && .AVIATION [Through 18Z Friday]... With scattered convection across the area, cigs will bounce between MVFR and VFR with gusty winds during thunderstorms. Storms are expected to dissipate between 23-01Z, but the return to VFR will be brief once again as IFR-MVFR cigs and vsbys settle in overnight. Another system will approach us from the west tomorrow, which may cause some light rain at ECP and scattered thunderstorms near DHN by the end of the period. && .MARINE... Light to occasionally moderate S-SW winds will continue through Friday night, then veer to the NW Saturday night as a cold front passes through the region. Winds will be NW 10 KT on Sunday behind the front. && .FIRE WEATHER... No Concerns. && .HYDROLOGY... River levels are running low. Daily rain chances will continue for the rest of the week with a drier pattern returning on Sunday. Five- day rainfall totals are forecast to be around one to two inches with minimal impacts to area rivers. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Tallahassee 71 84 72 87 68 / 30 60 60 40 10 Panama City 74 79 73 81 70 / 20 60 50 30 0 Dothan 68 80 68 84 64 / 20 80 60 20 0 Albany 68 81 69 84 64 / 30 80 70 20 0 Valdosta 69 84 70 85 66 / 40 60 60 50 10 Cross City 71 87 72 86 69 / 20 40 50 50 10 Apalachicola 72 80 73 83 70 / 10 50 40 30 0 && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AL...None. GM...None. && NEAR TERM...Moore SHORT TERM...Barry/Chaney LONG TERM...Barry AVIATION...Moore MARINE...Barry/Chaney FIRE WEATHER...Harrigan HYDROLOGY...Wool
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:34 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Mitchell
- When
- May 19, 4:48 PM EST
- Where
- Mitchell County, 2.8 mi WSW of Mitchell County Arpt
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 31.197, -84.275
A couple of trees were blown down near Camilla, including one near Wiregrass Road and Evergreen Road.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 625444, 625445.